Re: Non-POSIX shells

From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
To: Sander Vesik Sun COM (Sander Vesik)
Cc: cactus cactus rulez org (ERDI Gergo), gnome-hackers gnome org (GNOME hackers)
Subject: Re: Non-POSIX shells
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:29:55 -0500 (EST)

> Umm... no - you just can't realy on anything beyond the capabilities
> provided by Bourne shell (or equivalent) in shell scripts that have to be

Whose bourne shell. Solaris, SunOS, BSD, AIX ? - every single one is
different on stuff like

read A <file

We should just document that sun folk need to fix the scripts - or maybe
some kind soul can manage a perl script for it ?
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- Re: Non-POSIX shells
  - From: Sander Vesik

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